Arts & Entertainment Local Theater Report: Balboa Cuts Programming, 4-Star Marketed As 'Available,' Harding Returns As Arcade Bar Between the proliferation of sleek multiplexes, the overall decline in movie theater attendance, and options like the near-heavenly Alamo Drafthouse, it's surprising that any of San Francisco's classic cinema houses manage to hang
Arts & Entertainment The Six Best Oscars Parties In San Francisco If your invitation to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party somehow got lost in the mail, you can still get all the ballgowns, ballots and bingo of this Sunday night’s 88th Academy Awards
Arts & Entertainment Balboa Theater Celebrates 88 Years, And Brand New Projectors, With Party Next Sunday One of S.F.'s few remaining old neighborhood movie houses, the Balboa Theater, is ringing in another year next Sunday and they have plenty to celebrate. Thanks to crowd funding from its
Arts & Entertainment Historic Balboa Theater In Jeopardy The historic Balboa Theater is in danger of closing if it can't raise the funds to go digital. The Ocean Beach Bulletin reports that the 87-year-old theater is seeking money through a Kickstarter
SF News Balboa Theatre Spared by S.F. Neighborhood Theater Foundation Victory for at least one of the city's neighborhood movie houses today, as the Outer Richmond's very own Balboa Theatre announces they've been spared from a future of empty seats and dim projectors
misc The SFBC's "Love on Wheels" Dating Game Happens Friday Doors open at 6:00 PM and the dating game fun starts at 7:00 PM. The cost is $10, but admission is $0 for SFBC members. And of course there's free valet
misc Blocker: 3600 Balboa Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: Take the Money and Run For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: <i>San Francisco</i> There's something vaguely weird in reviewing a movie that came out in 1936 (Who this young rising star Clark Gable? He's going to go far!), but we had a great time at the
Arts & Entertainment So You Think You Know The Reel San Francisco? Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but this is our chance to see studio archive prints of these classics in a big-screen theatre setting. DVDs just can't compare! Some of
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch From Noir City: <em>Gilda</em> To introduce Gilda (1946) at the Balboa Theater on Thursday, NoirCity founder Eddie Muller offered a familiar interpretation of the film: its protagonist (Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell), like its director (Charles Vidor)
SF News Interview: Matthew Leutwyler We realized that we were living our rock and roll fantasy when we started getting chances to write about zombie movies. (What can we say? We're a simple person, and we have simple
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Don't Bother Us, We're In Mourning We knew it was coming, but we're still weren't ready when the news came down. SFist's beloved Coronet Theater is closing its doors forever this Sunday, in preparation for demolition by the owner
SF News Castro Update However, litigation seems to be afoot from a number of sides, so no one we contacted was willing to comment. In any case, we were at Saturday's protest organized by Audiences in Action
